Czech spy ‘targeted Royal Family by meeting Queen’s brother-in-law Lord Snowdon twice in 1970s’ Communist spies allegedly tried to infiltrate the Royal Family during Cold War Czech agent ‘Krupsky’ posed as embassy official to meet Lord Snowdon Suggested he discussed Royal trip to Soviet Union and possible photo exhibition with Princess …
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The company has had a succession of visionary leaders and in the current century at least has made a habit of under-promising and over-delivering Not many people remember the family-owned tailoring business, J Hepworth. If you do remember it, and you were not particularly interested in stock market news in …
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London’s FTSE 100 was up 0.3% at 6,590.75 in afternoon trade on Tuesday. Aveva was the top gainer after an upgrade to ‘buy’ from ‘neutral’ at UBS. Next was also sharply higher after the retailer reported a smaller-than-expected drop in sales over Christmas and said online sales made up for …
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European markets slipped as the UK imposed its third national lockdown and Germany prepared to extend measures to stymie a surge of coronavirus cases. The pan-European Stoxx 600 was down 0.19% to 400.94, although London’s FTSE 100 was up 0.61% at 6,612.25. France’s CAC 40 slipped 0.44% to 5,564.60, and …
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London’s FTSE 250 was up 0.5% at 20,633.81 in afternoon trade on Tuesday. Softcat surged to the top of the index after saying that trading has remained positive since its first-quarter statement in mid-November and the company is ahead of where it expected to be. In an update ahead of …
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Analysts at Morgan Stanley downgraded their view on several UK office stocks in response to expected increases in supply and the structural uncertainties that were still present. The direction for the office subsector was clouded by a mix of cyclical and structural factors alongside a wide range of financial and …
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David Park was a familiar figure in the villages of Avonbridge and Standburn over the last quarter of a century deliveriing the mail, come rain or shine, day-in-day-out all year round. Unfortunately Mr Park, who lived in Standburn all his life, had been ill for some time and died on …
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Carbon fibre brake disc manufacturer Surface Transforms updated the market on its trading for the year ended 31 December on Tuesday, reporting that revenue for the year rose to £2m from £1.9m. The AIM-traded firm said cash at the end of the year stood at £1.1m, up from £0.8m, and …
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image copyrightGetty Images image captionAll primary and secondary schools are closed to most pupils for at least the next six weeks. Tough new lockdown measures introduced across England mean schools are now closed to most pupils and GCSE and A-Levels have been cancelled. This means a return to remote learning …
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A number of people have claimed they are still receiving Christmas cards into January, and other post hasn’t arrived (Picture: SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images) Royal Mail has said it is doing ‘everything necessary’ to deliver post after claims some are still receiving Christmas cards which were posted …
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